22/03/2017 - 09:26
Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss has unveiled plans for four new prisons in England and Wales, creating 5,000 modern prison places to replace old and overcrowded establishments.
16/03/2017 - 12:15
The HCA has announced it will provide a £45 million loan to build over 4,500 new homes at a site near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
16/03/2017 - 09:45
Councils will gain greater flexibility to prioritise homelessness prevention under a new flexible homelessness support grant.
13/03/2017 - 12:53
Legislation has been proposed to abolish Right to Buy, the Preserved Right to Buy and the Right to Acquire for tenants of local authorities and registered social landlords after a period of at least one year following Royal Assent.
13/03/2017 - 12:35
Stirling Council has been issued with a £10,500 penalty after it ignored warnings for nine years about asbestos in the basement of its Old Viewforth headquarters.
10/03/2017 - 10:08
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has supported a full decant of the Palace of Westminster while major works are undertaken as ‘the most economical, effective and efficient choice’.
09/03/2017 - 10:11
The UK’s most vulnerable tenants are being pushed out of the private rental market as a result of rising rents and benefit cuts.
06/03/2017 - 11:38
The Local Government Association (LGA), has called on the government to use the Spring Budget to free councils from borrowing limits hampering their ability to build new homes, citing that local authorities are forced to spend £2 million per day on providing temporary accommodation.
27/02/2017 - 10:55
Work and Pensions Select Committee chairman Frank Field has called for surplus army food packs to be used to feed the UK's homeless population, after figures showed 12,275 operational ration packs (ORP) had been disposed of between April and December.
23/02/2017 - 14:47
New data reveals that the number of new build homes that have started to be built have continued to rise to the highest level since 2007.
22/02/2017 - 10:17
The Supreme Court has ruled that income barrier stopping thousands of British citizens from bringing a foreign spouse to the UK is lawful.
20/02/2017 - 11:27
Staff at Northamptonshire County Council have been told to work in a library or from home because of a delay to work to the council’s new headquarters.
17/02/2017 - 10:08
Housing and Planning Minister Gavin Barwell has visited Medway to highlight how the region is leading the way in fixing the broken housing market.
16/02/2017 - 10:00
Glasgow Council is set to reach a vital planning decision on implementing a major billion pound development at Glasgow University.
15/02/2017 - 11:18
Analysis by BBC News has shown that one in three new build properties outside London were bought through the Help to Buy scheme.
